Royal Voluntary Service

Thousands of volunteers are needed to offer their helping hands over the course of King Charles III’s coronation celebrations - Credit: Getty Images

King Charles III coronation looking for thousands of volunteers

Stephen Pardon, Royal Voluntary†Service (RVS) volunteer helping at the vaccination centre set up in Hull. Picture Tony Johnson

Ad Feature The vital role of volunteers

Lisa Belletty, health and wellbeing advisor at People’s Postcode Lottery.

Volunteers in Leeds and York needed to help communities through winter crisis

The Jo Cox Foundation is stepping up its campaign on loneliness.

How we’re tackling loneliness in my sister Jo Cox’s memory this Christmas – Kim ...

This is why you might see Asda delivery drivers wearing “Happy To Chat” badges

Lucy Currie is one of many people in the region who stepped up to help during the pandemic

Volunteers praised for stepping up to help communities in Yorkshire

Why we want to say a #BigThankYou - and how you can too

Students at Huddersfield University (pictured) have been raising money to support the vulnerable and elderly.

Cash raised by university students used to pay for shopping for elderly

Three quarters of a million people have now signed up to volunteer for the NHS during the coronavirus crisis.

Number of volunteers to help out NHS in time of crisis reaches 750,000

Signage showing its appreciation to the NHS amid the coronavirus outbreak. PA.

This is how you can sign up to join the NHS volunteer army and fight the coronav...

Young people are more likely to volunteer in the community than older people

Under 25s most likely to volunteer in their community

RVS volunteer Tayla Falconer, 22, of Doncaster. Picture: Tom Martin

Major new volunteer recruitment campaign to meet ‘unprecedented’ pressures and h...

Beverley Community Lift user Daphne Kemp with driver Jim Whitfield in Cherry Burton near Beverley where the village population is ageing. Picture Tony Johnson.

How one village is tackling loneliness amid its ageing population

Stints of exercise can boost brain power in over-50s, say experts.

Stints of exercise can boost brain power in over-50s, say experts

The Yorkshire Post has been campaigning on the issue since February 2014

YP Comment: PM's commitment on loneliness

Former Treasury minister Jim O'Neill.

YP Comment: Devolution '“ Yorkshire's leaders must raise their collective game

Burger King and Subway are at the botton of a hospital healthy food table

No kidding! Survey finds the least healthy hospital food is from... Burger King

10-year-old Eleni Taylor, from Sheffield, who has written a heartwarming poem called Love Like Jo

Beautiful flower in a field of sadness: A little girl's poem for Jo Cox

Laurence Furlong at the Royal Voluntary Service Wakefield Meals With Care depot in Featherstone.
Picture: Scott Merrylees

#2016hours: First volunteers inspired by The YP's Loneliness campaign get to wor...

Emily Pritchard at the social group ran by CARE (Community Action for Roundhay Elderly) in Leeds. Picture Tony Johnson

#2016hours: Why '˜lifeline' social club makes such a difference to people like E...

Royal Voluntary Service befriender Bob Burns, of Chapel Allerton Good Neighbours, with Ted Franklin, who he visits.

#2016hours: Find out where in Yorkshire your volunteering help is needed most
There are many ways to get involved a pledge your time for the #2016hours campaign and help tackle the loneliness felt by thousands of older people in Yorkshire..

Helen Mirren is Yorkshire 60-somethings most inspirational 70 year old
Photo: Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP

Sexagenarians are relishing their impending 70s

Leeds Station is integral to the future of all rail services in the region.

YP Comment: Time to fast-track the North, Mr Osborne

86-year-old Margaret Cawthorne volunteering at the Royal Voluntary Service cafe at Royal Hallamshire Hospital in Sheffield. Picture Scott Merrylees

#2016hours: How an army of volunteers help make hospital stays that little bit e...

Natalie Kelly 25, visits Donald Firth at his home in Bradford.

Picture : Jonathan Gawthorpe

#2016hours: How Donald's befriender became '˜like a granddaughter' to him

Paul Taylor, head of support and development at the Royal Voluntary Service. Picture Scott Merrylees

#2016hours: Donating your time could shape future services in the battle against...

Ted Franklin, 80, of Chapel Allerton, Leeds, with volunteer befriender Bob Burns.
Picture James Hardisty.

#2016hours: Help us to help the lonely by donating your time

Picture: PA

'˜Win-win' as social prescribing pilot shows it could save NHS cash - and help t...

Senior Sister Anita Ruckledge with the Forget Me Not Flower.
The quality of care for dementia patients is set to improve with the help of a small
blue flower.
The Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trusts Forget-Me-Not scheme aims to provide

better services for people with the condition at its hospitals in Pinderfields, Pontefract and Dewsbury and reassure their loved ones that they are receiving the best possible care.

Anita Ruckledge MBE: Our society has lost its heart and compassion for the elder...

A nurse treats an elderly patient.

David McCullough: Bridging care gap for a happier homecoming

Picture by Gerard Binks.

Study shows retirees ‘busier than ever’ as region celebrates contribution of old...

The RVS said age is no barrier when it comes to performing together.
Student Heather McDermott pours tea for dementia ambassador Muriel Hick. The pair took part in a intergenerational choir in Chapel Allerton.

Picture by Tony Johnson

Campaign aims to get people signing to help tackle loneliness
THE POWER of music is being used to prove “age is no barrier” when it comes to friendship and help people with dementia to connect to those around them.

Hearing loss taboo causing thousands of Yorkshire’s elderly to suffer in silence

Colin and Barbara Watts, are coping with Dementia, after Colin, was recently diagnosed.

Picture James Hardisty

Helping those living with dementia

Dementia Support Good Neighbours offer practical support as well as company and chat.

Picture: PA Photo/thinkstockphotos.

Dementia help to expand after funding

Extra support for older patients leaving hospital

Pam Clarkson from Lofthouse, near Wakefield, who cooks for elderly people on Christmas Day.

Giving up their own Christmas to help those who are alone

File photo.

Huge numbers face a lonely Xmas

Castleford Tigers' Steve Ball
with the RVS stand, which will be present at home matches this season.

Campaign see rugby clubs unite to tackle loneliness in older men

Brian Winterbottom in his garden at Netherton, Huddersfield. Picture by Simon Hulme

‘An hour a week can change someone’s life’

Defeated by EU migration

A cup of tea as the traditional office tea round is becoming extinct

Are you too busy for a cuppa at the office?

Carol Nevison: The small acts of kindness that can end isolation

Elderly men suffer in silence as volunteer numbers fall short

Loneliness comes at a cost for cancer patients.

One in four cancer sufferers are lonely

Loneliness comes at a cost for cancer patients.

Charities inundated by requests to help lonely

Loneliness comes at a cost for cancer patients.

Befriending services struggling to meet huge demand for help

Nichola McDonald-Bell, a befriender for the Royal Voluntary Service's Good Neighbours befriending scheme in Sheffield.

Disability is no barrier for committed helper

Alan Brown, 82, and his befriender Mick Downing in Sheffield

Artistic Alan relies on Mick for conversation and shopping

How you can seek support

Mary Socha at her home in Dewsbury. Picture: Bruce Rollinson

Lifeline visits ease lonely burden on Mary

Don’t believe them when they say ‘never volunteer for anything’